By Emily Milic
Humber College, together with NIIT Canada is the new accredited education delivery provider of the Real Estate Salesperson Program in Ontario. The program is delivered on behalf of the Real Estate Council of Ontario (RECO).
Representatives from Humber, the Real Estate Council of Ontario, and NIIT Canada celebrated the successful launch of the program on November 19, 2019.
The program is designed to be flexible and is offered online and in locations across Ontario. Students can apply and start coursework at any point during the year, without the time commitment of a full-time, semester-based program.
"This is the largest program launch of this nature in Humber's history," said Wanda Buote, dean, Education & Training Solutions. "When we launched on September 16, we launched with 2,163 new learners starting the first course. There is significant demand for this type of education and we are proud to work with our partners to provide a program that prepares learners to be practice-ready."
The Humber Real Estate Education Program Office, located at 30 Carrier Drive in Toronto, was designed to create an operational centre for the program with classrooms, a new test centre and is home to an operations team that supports new learners.
Fifteen colleges across the province are also serving as testing sites for the program, helping to make the program more accessible to people across the province.
"In April 2017, when RECO announced the creation of our partnership with NIIT and Humber, we promised that this new program would ensure that new registrants were more practice-ready when they begin their real estate careers," said Joseph Richer, RECO Registrar. "I'm very confident that we have fulfilled our promise to new learners. New registrants graduating from this program will be more practice-ready and therefore will raise the professional standard across the industry."
The program includes flexible online learning with optional facilitated review sessions, interactive simulations, and a knowledge management system that helps prepare learners for their careers in real estate.
NIIT Canada, a leading global corporate training company, designed and developed the program as well at the technology systems to support it.
"RECO, NIIT Canada and Humber College have worked as a team to build a program that meets the highest standards of learning for the real estate profession," said Sapnesh Lalla, Chief Executive Officer, NIIT Limited. "The new program utilizes our award-winning learning methodology and introduces many innovations like interactive simulation sessions and immersive, scenario-based learning to enable real estate professionals to be practice-ready from day one."
Learners may register for the Real Estate Salesperson Program at any point during the year. More information on the program can be found here.
